# 2025

LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Section pages:

- [New Configuration Schema release candidate](/blog/2025/declarative-config-rc3/)
- [Calling New Contributors - Help Us Improve the OpenTelemetry Onboarding Experience](/blog/2025/calling-new-contributors/)
- [Deprecating Zipkin Exporter](/blog/2025/deprecating-zipkin-exporters/)
- [Is the OTCA Exam Right for You? Insights for Both Newcomers and Advanced Users](/blog/2025/otca-for-newcomers-and-advanced-users/)
- [Announcing 2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards Winners](/blog/2025/community-awards-winners/)
- [Evolving OpenTelemetry's Stabilization and Release Practices](/blog/2025/stability-proposal-announcement/)
- [Contributing the Unroll Processor to the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib](/blog/2025/contrib-unroll-processor/)
- [Announcing Support for Complex Attribute Types in OTel](/blog/2025/complex-attribute-types/)
- [OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation Marks the First Release](/blog/2025/obi-announcing-first-release/)
- [Announcing the 2025 Governance Committee Election Results](/blog/2025/gc-elections-results/)
- [Announcing the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election Candidates](/blog/2025/gc-candidates/)
- [The Declarative configuration journey: Why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing](/blog/2025/declarative-config/)
- [OpenTelemetry Sampling update](/blog/2025/sampling-milestones/)
- [Exploring OpenTelemetry Priorities for Mainframes - Insights from Survey Responses](/blog/2025/mainframe-survey/)
- [OTel Unplugged EU at FOSDEM 2026](/blog/2025/otel-unplugged-fosdem/)
- [Demystifying Automatic Instrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works](/blog/2025/demystifying-auto-instrumentation/)
- [A day in the life of an OpenTelemetry maintainer](/blog/2025/day-opentelemetry-maintainer/)
- [2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards](/blog/2025/community-awards/)
- [Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2025](/blog/2025/kubecon-na/)
- [OpenTelemetry Android: Road to Stable](/blog/2025/android-road-to-stable/)
- [Announcing OpenTelemetry Technical Committee Election Results](/blog/2025/tc-election-results/)
- [Call for Contributors: OpenTelemetry for Kotlin](/blog/2025/kotlin-multiplatform-opentelemetry/)
- [Announcing the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election](/blog/2025/gc-elections/)
- [Retrospective of September 25th go.opentelemetry.io incident](/blog/2025/go-opentelemetry-io-expired-certificate/)
- [How to Contribute to OpenTelemetry](/blog/2025/contribute-to-otel/)
- [How to Name Your Metrics](/blog/2025/how-to-name-your-metrics/)
- [Your Critical Legacy App is a Black Box? Let's Change That in 5 Minutes!](/blog/2025/opentelemetry-for-legacy-app/)
- [How to Name Your Span Attributes](/blog/2025/how-to-name-your-span-attributes/)
- [More Signal, Less Noise: How GitHub Issue Reactions Help Prioritize](/blog/2025/issue-participation/)
- [How to Name Your Spans](/blog/2025/how-to-name-your-spans/)
- [OTel in Practice: Alibaba's OpenTelemetry Journey](/blog/2025/otip-alibaba/)
- [How Should Prometheus Handle OpenTelemetry Resource Attributes? - A UX Research Report](/blog/2025/ux-research-prometheus-otel/)
- [Observability by Design: Unlocking Consistency with OpenTelemetry Weaver](/blog/2025/otel-weaver/)
- [Adding Automatic Instrumentation to Your App, Made Easy with the OpenTelemetry Injector](/blog/2025/otel-injector/)
- [Action Required - Slack Workspace Changes are Coming Friday, June 20](/blog/2025/slack-workspace-changes/)
- [OpenTelemetry Celebrates Pride](/blog/2025/recognizing-pride-month/)
- [OTel Community Day + Open Observability Summit: One Big Day for Open Source Observability](/blog/2025/otel-day/)
- [Insights from the OpenTelemetry Contributor Experience Survey](/blog/2025/contribex-survey-results/)
- [Exposing OTel Collector in Kubernetes with Gateway API & mTLS](/blog/2025/expose-otel-collector-gateway-api/)
- [Announcing the RPC Semantic Conventions stabilization project](/blog/2025/stabilizing-rpc-conventions/)
- [Kubernetes CPU Metrics in the kubeletstats Receiver: Transition from .cpu.utilization to .cpu.usage](/blog/2025/kubeletstats-receiver-metrics-deprecation/)
- [Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025](/blog/2025/kubecon-japan/)
- [Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025](/blog/2025/kubecon-china/)
- [OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow - Phase 2 Announcement](/blog/2025/otel-arrow-phase-2/)
- [The Humans of OpenTelemetry - KubeCon EU 2025](/blog/2025/humans-of-otel-eu/)
- [OpenTelemetry Logging and You](/blog/2025/opentelemetry-logging-and-you/)
- [OTel Sucks (But Also Rocks!)](/blog/2025/otel-rocks/)
- [Insights from the OpenTelemetry Developer Experience Survey](/blog/2025/devex-survey/)
- [Announcing the OpenTelemetry JavaScript SDK 2.0](/blog/2025/otel-js-sdk-2-0/)
- [Reflecting on my Outreachy Journey](/blog/2025/outreachy-internship/)
- [AI Agent Observability - Evolving Standards and Best Practices](/blog/2025/ai-agent-observability/)
- [Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025](/blog/2025/kubecon-eu/)
- [OpenTelemetry Is Expanding Into CI/CD Observability](/blog/2025/otel-cicd-sig/)
- [Announcing the OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0](/blog/2025/otel-demo-2/)
- [OTTL contexts just got easier with context inference](/blog/2025/ottl-contexts-just-got-easier/)
- [The OpenTelemetry Contributor Experience Survey is open!](/blog/2025/contribex-survey/)
- [Observing Lambdas using the OpenTelemetry Collector Extension Layer](/blog/2025/observing-lambdas/)
- [OpenTelemetry on Mainframe Priorities Survey](/blog/2025/otel-mainframe-priorities-survey/)
- [Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF](/blog/2025/go-auto-instrumentation-beta/)
- [Kubernetes annotation-based discovery for the OpenTelemetry Collector](/blog/2025/otel-collector-k8s-discovery/)
- [Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation](/blog/2025/go-compile-time-instrumentation/)
- [OpenTelemetry Go 2025 Goals](/blog/2025/go-goals/)